slaveys

She was of the callously named tribe of lodging-house "slaveys"; and what gave me some interest in her personality, apart from the type she represented, was the fact that she had come from the Vale of Blackmore, a part of Dorset which I knew very well.

The Message 1912

Raffles said that, as far as he knew, the "slaveys" were thinking about anything else than the proceedings of the two young Oliphants.

Roger Ingleton, Minor Talbot Baines Reed 1872

These slaveys, or servants, were a sort of pariahs among the prisoners, chiefly Johnny Raws, or country chaps, apprentices, or others, who had no acquaintances to assist them while in gaol, and who were not possessed of sufficient dexterity in gambling to supply their wants by any of the various cheating tricks resorted to among the knowing ones.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

Served him right, too; acting as if the VADs were his personal slaveys.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

Mamie Calligan and her mother were adoring slaveys, so she was not entirely out of the atmosphere which she craved and to which she was accustomed.

The Financier 2004

Why those plainclothes men are always courting slaveys.

Ulysses 2003

All during the week they worked like kitchen slaveys, doing chores, running errands.

Prudence Says So Ethel Hueston

He put his tongue out through the banisters at the children of the house and said, "Little slaveys."

The House of Arden Edith 1923

Why those plainclothes men are always courting slaveys.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Girls are driven – when they are not driven to worse – they are driven to being lodging-house slaveys or over-worked scullions.

The Convert 1907